Осы сабақ білім алушылардың

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  Managing Information
  
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  Self-Management
  
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  Thinking
  
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  Being Creative
  

Just like the brain stores information by connecting tree-like branches, learning is most effective when connections are made and then structured. Mind Maps reflect this and are useful as planning and revision tools. They appeal to different learning styles such as visual and kinaesthetic and encourage pupils to think about connections in their learning content. They oblige pupils to use both sides of the brain. If used for planning, they can be added to and extended as the topic continues. See the Consequence Wheel and Fishbone Strategy for similar visual activities which ask pupils to think about cause and effect.

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  Geography: rivers
  

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  Kazakh language: characters or themes in a book
  

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  History: the Armada
  

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  Foreign Languages: vocabulary based on the context ‘leisure’.
  

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   Using branches, pupils draw the main ideas around the central concept, connecting them to the centre. Pupils could use a different colour for each main idea and highlighters to underline key words and concepts. Pupils could also add images to enhance further the visual aspect of their map.
   

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   Pupils draw sub-branches in order to highlight ideas connected to the main branch.
   

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   If used as a revision tool, pupils might want to use the mind map as a springboard for more extensive revision. They might, for example, wish to develop revision notes on a postcard – one postcard for each sub-branch. These postcards could contain the same colours and images as the relevant sub-branch on their mind map.
   

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   A debrief after completion of the mind map may encourage pupils to think about why they clustered particular ideas together as well as how the map has clarified their thinking.